Manifest Postive Thoughts
What would make this world into a Utopia? If everyone had the power to make their positive thoughts manifest easily so that all our senses would benefit Why? I wish it were easier for people to feel that their kindness became a flower, or their hopefulness became a song or their joy became an apple […]
Healthy MacDonalds
What would make this world into a Utopia? If McDonald’s tasted exactly like it does and is healthy 🙂 Why? Just because. Anon. Utopia Machine: Healthy MacDonalds, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 2 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.
Ending Patriarchy
What would make this world into a Utopia? Ending Patriarchy  Why? As a woman, I am so so tired of and bored and hurt by being t treated as a special class of person whose  rights and social role are constantly up for debate throughout the world. I want a world where gender is […]
Expand Nature
What would make this world into a Utopia? Vast forests, larger mountains, and expanded oceans  Why? In order generate further growth and development of new plant life or re-emergence in previous plant life being depleted. Ryan B. Utopia Machine: Expand Nature, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 24 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 […]
Field for my Family
What would make this world into a Utopia? Making a place with field and butterflies, rainbows and ladybugs where my grandchildren, their grandchildren my grandparents and parents can all meet. Why? I have a new granddaughter and my mother would have been so taken with her and I would love to meet and pass on […]
Fractals
What would make this world into a Utopia? Because when I design fractals, it’s an infinite sequence of probabilities. A utopia is an oasis of possibilities, so when the two coincide it’s a beautiful alchemy. Why? Because i saw it in my mind and from the rough sketch of the flyer i got from the […]
Giving Tree Stomach Pit
What would make this world into a Utopia? Giving Tree Stomach Pits. Â Why? I believe a utopic society requires people who are actively working against greed to make selfless, benevolent choices for the health of said utopia. I invision the “Giving Tree Stomach Pit” to be a large seed that, when swallowed by given […]
Harmony
What would make this world into a Utopia? If everyone was in harmony not just with each other, but also with nature. Â Why? I would say that racism must end. The importance of equality is a great source of controversy within our country, and despite the biases and opinions people have against each other, […]
Hate Vacuum
What would make this world into a Utopia? A vacuum that sucks up all the hate in the world. Â After October 7, I told my son he shouldn’t wear his kippah outside anymore. I was afraid he would get targeted. He’s very curious so he decided to research anti-Semitism and make it the subject […]
Homes for All
What would make this world into a Utopia? Everyone having their own safe place, a home. Happiness all around with a rainbow of colors filling the air with joy. Green trees everywhere with flowers of all colors and the sky as blue as can be, thus exploring a healthy and happy atmosphere. Why? Because during […]
Limitless Resources
What would make this world into a Utopia? The world would be a utopia if limited resources was not such a problem. I’m imagining a screen to be a type of drafting screen that tests hypothesis through ai statistic but like quantum speed style.  Because it’s a problem. It makes people violent and desperate. […]
Match Funding
What would make this world into a Utopia? Any funding put towards policing, imprisonment, and the military must be paired with a greater increase in funding toward local and international social and aid programs. Â Why? I don’t believe we can exist without violence, the final deterrent for absolute and extreme evil must be absolute […]
Mind Reading for the Police
What would make this world into a Utopia? Mindreading for the Police  Why? I will give two prompts for a utopic world I too believe in a utopic world and have always wanted to be a part of a society such as this I believe the machines that can read people’s minds or rather […]
Music Maker
What would make this world into a Utopia? Music Maker Why? A friend told me about this idea. Jacques M. Utopia Machine: Music Maker, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 6 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in. Photograph: Ellen Harvey Studio.
Kantian Constructivism
What would make this world into a Utopia? A Utopian world could be achieved by designing a machine based on Kantian constructivism, where moral principles are iteratively generated through pure reason, fostering universal ethical harmony. Why? I chose the idea of a machine based on Kantian constructivism because it proposes a methodical approach to establishing […]
Living in a Painting
What would make this world into a Utopia? Living in a Painting Why? I’d like to live in a painting. Philae K. Utopia Machine: Living in a Painting, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 39 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.
Quiet Hospitals
What would make this world into a Utopia? Hospitals that are quiet and supports sleep for restful healing. Why? I have been dreaming recently about a hospital designed for sleep. It would be so different, quiet and dark. Soft music by musician Yoko Sen, maybe gentle lights, comfortable beds. Without the blaring alarms, people yelling, […]
Respect
What would make this world into a Utopia? People respecting each other, perhaps as children, before finding out differences among us. Why? I grew up in the “Little Little Tokyo” area of L.A. That was the West Adams Crenshaw District. After being in the U.S. camps during WWII, many Japanese American families moved there. Kids […]
Mandatory Therapy
What would make this world into a Utopia? Required higher education, therapy, rehab, emotional intelligence, empathy lessons for all. Why? Because the world is in shambles. Both in an outward political way and in regard to the policies of those with power and capital, which effect people deeply in their inner life. If we valued […]
Money Printer Allocator
What would make this world into a Utopia? The existence of a money printer/allocator that possesses the ability of detecting genuineness; essentially, printing and allocating money based on a one-to-one, real-life proposal. The request is granted based on the detected genuineness of the proposer, its relative priority in relation to other requests within each local […]
No Guns
What would make this world into a Utopia? A world without guns of all shapes and sizes Why? Every year roughly 42,ooo people die from gun violence in the US. 16,000 are murdered and 27.000 are suicides.The US ranks first for rates of firearms deaths among high-income countries in the world – a shameful record! […]
No Humans
What would make this world into a Utopia? Mother Nature removes the humans Why? Humans are a hazard. Anon. Utopia Machine: No Humans, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 42 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.
Nothing
What would make this world into a Utopia? Nothing, the concept is flawed and leads ultimately to totalitarianism. Damned by good intentions. Why? Dear Ellen, Thank you for the invitation to conjure a Utopia. But this is a difficult question, since utopia has never existed and will never exist and to conjure one is to […]
Nuclear Fusion
What would make this world into a Utopia? Nuclear Fusion Why? The development of Nuclear Fusion (mimicking the sun) will supply an abundance of cheap electricity eliminating the use of fossil fuels. David H. Utopia Machine: Nuclear Fusion, Ellen Harvey, 2024. No. 46 of 100 panels. Acrylic on Alubond panel, 16 x 12 in.